The List of Important Dates When Microsoft Ends Support for the Version of Windows and Office

Microsoft has a well-established support lifecycle for its software products. It’s basically an agreement that the company makes with everyone who commits to its core products, Windows and Office. There are two very important products which extended support will end next year in 2017. Windows Vista’s final date for security updates is April 11, 2017, while Office 2007 support ends on October 10, 2017.

You may wonder which one will be next. Here is a list of dates when Microsoft will end their support for the version of Windows and Office.

Product

Mainstream Support Ends

Extended Support Ends

Windows Vista SP2

No longer supported

April 11, 2017

Windows 7 SP1 Windows Server 2008 R2

No longer supported

January 14, 2020

Windows 8/8.1 Windows Server 2012/2012 R2

January 9, 2018

January 10, 2023

Windows 10

October 13, 2020

October 14, 2025

Office 2007 SP3

No longer supported

October 10, 2017

Office 2010 SP2

No longer supported

October 13, 2020

Office 2013

April 10, 2018

April 11, 2023

Office 2016

October 13, 2020

October 14, 2025

What’s Extended Support? And What’s the difference from the Mainstream Support?

Microsoft will ofter mainstream support for a minimum of 5 years from the date of a product’s general availability and extend support for another 5 years after that.

Two things are only available during Mainstream Support period,

The changes of product design and features

Complimentary support included with the license, licensing program or other no-charge support programs.

What’s important to end users is that Microsoft will still release security updates during the extended support. For example, even though the mainstream support has ended for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, there will still be security updates released to these platforms until January 14, 2020.